The Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood's Perceptions of the Palestinian Issue

Abstract

The positions and beliefs adopted by the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) on aspects of the Palestinian issue, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s, are of major interest as they directed MB policies and enabled it to mobilize opinion against Jordan's foreign policy regarding Palestine. The framework of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood's views on Palestine was based on the Islamization of the Palestinian question by the prophetic claim that Jerusalem-Palestine is one 'Islamic land' and by asserting the religious duty of Jordan to play a strategic role in defending an Islamic cause. Also, they believe that the conflict with Israel is a religio-civilization conflict, not a political one, between Islam and Judaism.